Switch Departments, Keep Your Sanity

In a Digiday article from earlier this week, Founding Partner and Executive Creative Director Aaron Harvey shed light on how to nail interdepartmental transitions.

Position Your Switch As An Opportunity for Company Growth — Even If Your Voice Shakes

Talk up hard skills like research, strategy or analytics and apply them to areas where the company should expand into. Aaron Harvey, founding partner and creative director at advertising agency Ready Set Rocket, said to identify opportunities for company growth and present yourself as the person to make it happen using these skills.
Understand Management’s Perspective

You might be raring to go, but management needs to make sure that your switch makes sense for the company’s trajectory. Sometimes, employees don’t understand the “why” of management decisions. Instead, strive to “understand the perspective of each department before you decide where you may or may not be a good fit,” said Harvey. Those wishing to make a move need to recognize that it’s management’s decision in the end, not yours.